Integrating basic research on thyroid hormone action into screening and testing programs for thyroid disruptors

Critical Reviews in Toxicology

Volumn 37, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 5-10

  Tan, Shirlee W ^a,b   Zoeller, R Thomas ^c  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

3,3 ,5 triiodothyronine (T3); Deiodinase; Hormone Transport; Iodothyronine; Monocarboxylate Anion Transporter 8 (MCT8); Thyroid Hormones (TH); Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH); Thyroxin (T4)

Indexed keywords

HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; LEVOTHYROXINE; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

AMPHIBIA; BIRD; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISH; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAMMAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; REPTILE; REVIEW; SCREENING; SERUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYROID DISEASE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; THYROID HORMONES; TOXICOLOGY;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33847076843     PISSN: 10408444     EISSN: 15476898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408440601123396     Document Type: Review

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